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Elon Musk and Donald Trump during the US presidential campaign, October 5, 2024.
UNITED STATES – Promised, due. Donald Trump announced this Tuesday, November 12, that he intended to appoint the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, to head a newly created ministry of“governmental efficiency”. He will work jointly with Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former 2024 presidential candidate.
“Together, these two great Americans will chart a path for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excessive regulations, cut wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies.”declared the president-elect in a press release, ensuring that these two allies of his campaign would “send shock waves through the system”.
He even compared it to “Manhattan Project of our time”named for the American research and development program during World War II to create the atomic bomb.
It’s been weeks since Donald Trump announced that the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and
A double head for a ministry of government efficiency
Elon Musk quickly reacted on his social network, writing: “Department of Government Effectiveness.” The merchandising will be (flames emoji). » As for Vivek Ramaswamy, he always promised on ” candy “.
If the three wealthy businessmen come to an enduring agreement, they could make $2,000 billion in clear cuts from a federal government budget of $6,500 to $7,000 billion. “I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes in the federal bureaucracy, with a vision for efficiency and, at the same time, improving the lives of all Americans”praised Donald Trump.
“It is important that we clean up the waste and mass fraud in government spending of $6.5 trillion. They will work together to free our economy and hold the United States government accountable to “WE THE PEOPLE”.”he proclaimed again.
For a “smaller government”
He gave Musk and Ramaswamy until July 4, 2026 for the world’s leading power to equip itself with a “smallest government” who would be “a perfect gift to America for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence” of July 4, 1776.
It remains to be seen how they will act. A fervent supporter of Donald Trump since his withdrawal from the presidential race, Vivek Ramaswamy notably affirmed that he was in favor of the abolition of the Ministry of Education, the FBI, or even the agency responsible for collecting taxes (IRS, Internal Revenue Service). He also wants to drastically cut aid to Ukraine, Israel, and even Taiwan, specifies the New York Times.
Elon Musk, for his part, complained about certain agencies such as the FAA (federal air traffic control agency), whose powers sometimes overlap those of the Department of the Interior, continues the New York daily.
As further underlined by New York Times, this announcement leaves many unknowns. The newspaper even goes so far as to question the ” serious “ of this new ministry, unique but potentially broad in scope. The president-elect also did not specify whether the two millionaires will have a team around them. He also did not address possible conflicts of interest between Elon Musk’s various companies and the administration.
The acronym “Doge”, anything but anecdotal
One last detail does not go unnoticed with this ministry. In English, the « Department of Government Efficiency »is the acronym « Doge ». Or, « Doge » refers to a Japanese shiba inu dog, named Kabosu, known worldwide on the internet since 2010, thanks to a photo that inspired a wave of offbeat jokes and “memes”. The dog has become the emblem of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency originally created as a joke but with which Elon Musk became infatuated in 2021.
After years of « Dogemania »the richest man in the world had announced a space project supposed to be entirely financed in dogecoin: DOGE-1, a small satellite that his company SpaceX was to launch. Then he declared that this Dogecoin cryptocurrency could be used to buy certain Tesla products, and in 2023 he briefly used a Doge icon as the logo of Twitter, the social network that he bought and renamed X.
Donald Trump did not stop there in the wave of appointments for his future administration. He also announced this Tuesday that he intended to appoint as Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth, a former major in the American army who is now a presenter on FoxNews, the favorite channel of conservatives in the United States. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who revealed that she shot and killed her young dog, was chosen to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.fr
